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O'Donnell wrote about Julia's excitable temperament and her reputation as a tartar to her servants. He also suggested that Kate Webster adopted the name Webster to evade the police.
According to Elliot O'Donnell, who we will link the source in the show notes, she was well known by neighbors to be distinctly eccentric.
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O'Donnell wrote about Julia's excitable temperament and her reputation as a tartar to her servants. He also suggested that Kate Webster adopted the name Webster to evade the police.
According to Elliot O'Donnell, who we will link the source in the show notes, she was well known by neighbors to be distinctly eccentric.
O'Donnell wrote that she was possessed of a remarkably excitable temperament, frequently getting vexed and put out for no apparent cause.
And she is still remembered as very much a tartar to her servants.
O'Donnell actually refers to it in the book as an obvious anxiety to be thought genteel.
Now, although he doesn't offer any examples of this, O'Donnell does heavily imply that Kate's appearance was a little brutish.